Monday, March 20, 2006

Installing oracle on Ubuntu breezy (AMD64)
Because it is an server machine (opteron) i had to install the Ubuntu Server version
and for Oracle i needed ot install desktop packages (needed for oracle java installer ) also Xforwarding must be enabled in sshd_conf

were all needed to make Oracle's installer happy (starting from the Dapper server install). I also needed to place ld-linux.so.2 from the 32 bit Dapper in /lib of the 64 bit Dapper.

So far, so good. With all these in place, I can run the Oracle installer. My only problem comes because at the oraInventory screen, I keep on getting a S_OWNER_SYSTEM_NOENT error dialog. It doesn't matter what I put in that screen, what group or directory I choose etc.

It just refuses to go past that. I'm left scratching my head as to how you and Dizwell managed to get things running. Maybe it's a 64bit issue, but somehow I doubt it because the installer is a 32 bit program and I have all the libraries dor that as 32 bit.

I suspect it's something going on in the installer ... I'm hoping you've seen that error message before ...